racist beliefs. These 8-demands/laws will take all the ambiguity out of their interpretation, are fairly straight-forward in their implementation, remove the decision-making ability from racist police officers, and can be measured for success very easily.
“claiming” to support us on this type of legislation is simply lying to the Black community to get us to vote for them. We are also not going to get any munici-
RACIAL REALITY CHECK 2020: MY BLACK PEOPLE
We ain’t gittin’ NO DAMN REPARATIONS … NO CHECK … NO “40 ACRES AND A MULE” … NO NOTHING as it pertains to cash or land. This country can no longer even afford to pay each liv- ing relative of a former slave a significant enough amount of money to make an appreciable differ- ence in any of our lives. And the long-term finan- cial damage from this coronavirus pandemic makes it even less likely. Based on my own unof- ficial polling of my close friends, personal discus- sions on all my social networks, and my observation on the political support - The major- ity of modern White people are never going to support the paying of a promised debt made by their racist ancestors for a sin they themselves never committed. And our shouts accusing them of benefit-
ting from White Privilege are falling on deaf ears. Even from those liberal-minded, progressive thinking White people that we would need as al- lies to get this type of legislation passed. I know it’s in writing, I know it ain’t fair, I too think it’s bullshit - but we gotta’ let it go. It’s weakening our argument for more realistic winnable de- mands, and the Black community is investing too much time and energy on it. Any politician
pality in this country to defund their police de- partments. Even with the corrupt, and racist history of policing in America - there is no sce- nario in which the majority of this country is going to remove this sense of security the good police officers provide all American citizens. The stat that White people continually throw up in my face is that we make up only 12% of the US popu- lation, but 52% of the violent crimes. Common sense would say that if we commit over half the violent crimes in this country - then we need a much higher number of Black cops to help lower those rates. But I have no comeback for that sta- tistic - we need to drastically reduce Black on Black crime - period. And these were their com- ments before the rioting, lootin’, burning down businesses, and tearing down of their confederate monuments. These events have made liberal-minded
White people, that we’re going to need as allies to get laws changed - even more scared of us. Some of those White folks that were solidly in our camp, has now slid a lil’ toward the fringe - and are buyin’ guns for the first time. And those White people are not about to remove that insti- tution between us and them that they claim pro- vides law-n-order, and has served their interest for centuries. And if you want to make a stone- cold hardened racist White person - even more racist - start defacing and tearing down all of his/her statues they worship and other symbols that represent their entire legacy. Which is natu- rally gonna’ lead to groups of White people van- dalizing all of the statues and public monuments of past greats from the Black community. The reality is our own neighborhoods are
violent as a mutherfucker, and we need to em- brace an All-Black police force in our community as peacekeepers. Unless we’re talking about going back to the old colonial-style volunteer watchmen system of policing - (All-Black) officers in our neighborhoods is currently our best option. But at the rate we’re goin’, we’re gonna’ run off all the honest police officers. Whether Black, White, or whatever race - no officer is gonna’ put up with people shootin’ at them, spittin’ in their face,
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